As the author explains, Video for Everybody! is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5
, so it can be used on every website and even on RSS Readers or mobile devices like the iPhone. Visit the site to start playing with the code.<video> element, falling back to QuickTime and Flash automatically
“Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next?” talks about the possibilities of HTML 5 for developers and the way Google thinks the new elements could improve our experience using web applications.
You can also download the 20 slides in PDF format.
Since support for HTML 5 is still evolving and even some new browsers don’t fully support the standard, you can’t expect older browsers to display your HTML 5 sites correctly.
Here are a few tutorials on how to make older browsers like Internet Explorer 6 display HTML 5 sites correctly:
audio tagThe audio tag in HTML 5 allows us to insert a sound or audio stream on our sites without the need of a proprietary plugin like Flash.
There’s still little information regarding the use of the audio and video tags, but Cedric Dougas shows us some examples to manipulate audio in HTML 5 using javascript.